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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 997
BY REPRESENTATIVE PUGH
PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS: Changes membership of the La. State Board of Private
Investigator Examiners
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 37:3504(B) and (D), relative to the Louisiana State Board of2
Private Investigator Examiners; to provide for membership; to provide for an3
effective date; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:3504(B) and (D) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as6
follows: 7
ยง3504. Louisiana State Board of Private Investigator Examiners; creation;8
qualifications; domicile; terms of office; confirmation; oath of office;9
compensation 10
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B. The board shall be composed of seven members appointed by the12
governor. One member shall be appointed from each of the five public service13
commission districts as established by law and shall be a resident of the district from14
which he is appointed. The governor shall appoint one licensed attorney to serve on15
the board from the state at large and one member from the state at large appointed16
from a list of names submitted by the board of directors of the Louisiana Private17
Investigators Association who shall be a private citizen with no financial or familial18
relationship to the private investigator industry. Each member of the board shall be19
a citizen of the United States of America, a resident of Louisiana, at least twenty-one20
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at large, shall have been actively engaged in the private investigator business for the1
previous five years, earning at least ninety percent of his gross income for the year2
preceding his appointment from the private investigator business. No more than two3
board members may be employed by or affiliated with the same agency. The initial4
board members shall not be required to be licensed but shall obtain a license within5
one hundred eighty days after appointment to the board. Each subsequent member6
shall be a licensed private investigator.7
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D. Each member shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. a term of four9
years. No person shall serve more than two terms, whether consecutive or not.10
Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.11
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012; if vetoed by the governor13
and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on July 1,14
2012, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.15
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Pugh HB No. 997
Abstract: Changes the membership of the La. State Board of Private Investigator
Examiners making the member at large a private citizen and changes term of the
members.
Present law creates the La. State Board of Private Investigator Examiners composed of seven
members appointed by the governor and who serve at his pleasure as follows:
(1)One from each of the five public service commission districts.
(2)One attorney from the state at large.
(3)One from the state at large appointed from a list of names submitted by the board of
directors of the La. Private Investigators Association.
Proposed law makes the member from the state at large a private citizen with no financial
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Proposed law changes the term of the members from pleasure of the governor to four-year
terms and limits a member to two terms, whether consecutive or not.
Effective July 1, 2012
(Amends R.S. 37:3504(B) and (D))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Commerce to the original
bill.
1. Made the member from the state at large a private citizen with no financial or
family ties to the industry.
2.Changed the term of the members from pleasure of the governor to four-year
terms and limits a member to two terms, whether consecutive or not.
3. Provided for an effective date of July 1, 2012.